The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-14

THE officers of the steamer ]. III. White
which was burned recently near Bayou
Sara, La, with such terrible loss of life,
were all indicted on the Sth for man
slaughter.
DR.. JAMES GRAVES, who was one of the
first patent-medicine makers in the United
States, died on the 8th at Louisville, KY.
aged seventy two years.
On the Sth the four-year-old daughter of
Andrew Hersch, living near Peru, Ind,
was burned to death, her dress taking fire
from stove
THE fund raised in Chicago for the bene-
fit Of Mrs. Logan and forwarded to her
amounted to s13, 900 on the Sth.
A FIRE in Lawrence, Kan, on the 8th,
which started in Kahnweiler & Bros dry
goods store, destroyed property valued at
100000
THE thermometer on the Sth registered
so degrees below zero at Miles City, NJ. T.,
and at Pembina, d. T., it was Sc degrees
below.
On the Sth Grand Sentinel, the best
stallion in Michigan, died at Kalamazoo
from blood poisoning. His owners, S. A.
Browne & Co., valued him at $25, 900.
THE German ship Elizabeth was wrecked
near Cape Henry, Va, on the Sth, and
twenty-five men were drowned.
MEMORIAL services were held in Chicago
on the evening of the 8th, in honor of Gen
eral Logan, gotten up by the Department
of the Illinois G. A. R., over three thou
sand pc sons being present.
PROF. B. SCHAFF, in jail at Cincinnati for
sWindling book sellers, committed suicide
in his cell on the 10th.
THE Legislature of Arkansas convened
at Little Rock on the 10th.
JOHN G.. ROGERS, for sixteen years Judge
of the circuit court of Cook County, fell
dead in dry-goods store in Chicago on the
afternoon of the 10th. Up to that moment
he appeared to be in perfect health. He
was born in Kentucky December %, 1918.
He leaves a widow, two sons, and two
daughters.
THE Inauguration Of Governor Martin, of
Kansas, took place at Topeka On the 10th
One of the features of the occasion was the
presence of six of the nine ex-Governors of
Kansas.
In a sixty days rat hunt in Knox Coun-
ty, O., which ended on the 10th, the one
hundred men engaged in the affair killed
| H. 32 rats and mice.
| On the 10th heavy losses on stock driven
onto the Montana ranges during last sum-
mor ana Tall were anticipated owing TO the
intense cold weather, and also to the fact
| that the cattle reached their new grazing
| grounds in poor condition.
| The death of Baptiste La Prairie, half
breed, occurred in the Soldiers Home at
| Milwaukee on the 10th at the age of 1903
| years.
| A BROKEN rail threw passenger train
down an embankment near Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 10th. Of the seventy five per-
sons on board two were badly hurt, but the
others escaped with comparatively slight
| injuries.
| WITH the assistance of nineteen Repub
! lican Senators the Indiana House on the
10th canvassed the vote for Lieutenant
| Governor and witnessed the swearing in of
r. S. Robertson by Judge Walker The
new official delivered his inaugural address
amidst the greatest confusion, and declared
the joint convention adjourned to Jan
uary 10.
THE little child of George Backus, of Green
| Springs, o., fell into cistern on the 10th i,
and the mother of the boy, in attempting
to save his life, persisted with him.
| SEVERAL shocks of earthquake were felt
at Charleston and Summerville, s. c., on
the evening of the 10th, accompanied by
the usual roaring sound.
VERGHo, RUHLING & Co., who established
a wholesale toy house in Chicago in 1866,
failed on the 10th with liabilities of $1O2 900.